Manifolding sales book



June 4, 1929.

E. K. B OTTLE I MANIFOLDING SALES BOOK Filed Feb. 5. 1922 TOR 06614;

ATTORNEY Patented June 4, 1929. I

EDWARD KIRBY BOTTLE, OF ELMIRA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN SALESBOOK COMPANY, LIMITED, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, cANADA A CORPORATION OFONTARIO, CANADA.

I 1,715,404 PATENT OFFICE.

MANIFOLDI-NG SALES BOOK.

Application filed." February 8, 1922. Serial No. 533,771.

This invention relates to manifolding devices and with respect to itsmore specific features to manifolding books, such as manifoldingsalesbooks for making a multiplicity 6 of copies. 1

The object of the invention is the provision of a practical salesbookwherewith three copies may be made at one writing, wherewith thematerial going to make up the book 10 is conserved, the manipulation ofthe book facilitated and the tendency to tear the leaves largelyeliminated.

Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed outhereinafter.

The invention'accordingly consists in the features of construction,combinations of ele ments and arrangement of parts which will beexemplified in the construction hereinafter set forth, and the scope oftheappli- I cation of which will be indicated in the fol- ,lowing claim.

In the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification andwherein similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughoutthe several views,

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a manifolding book embodying theinvention, the book being? set for inscription;

ig. 2 is aperspective view of the book partly broken away for clearerdisclosure; Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view, and

F ig. 4 is a diagrammatic view showing the arrangement of the leaves ofone of thepads.

Referring now more specifically to the drawing, the numerals 1 indicatethe record leaves of a pad, the leaves being preferably of thinrelatively opaque pa er so that an inscription upon an upper lea may,through the interposition of transfer material, be recorded in a similarform upon underlying leaves. This pad is formed from a continuous sheetfolded in a zigzag manner, as clearly seen in Fig. 4, to provide'the padof superposed record leaves. 'At the lines of 5 folding, indicated at'2, the paper may be weakened to facilitate tearing the leaves apart. 1

The numeral 3 indicates a backing,-preferably of stifl" material such asheavy pasteboard or thin metal. The backing 3 provides a support for thepad formed by the leaves 1, the pad being mounted on the support as morefully described below. The numerals 4 and 5 indicate lower and upper bonleaf, i. e. it is aleaf coated on each face with transfer material. The"clamping jaws 4 and 5 are carried by arms 8 pivoted to the backing 3,suitable means being provided to cause the lower clamp jaw 4 toresiliently press on the top. of the pad of leaves 1 and thereby retainthe pad on the backing 3. In the present instance the resilient pressureis obtained by the inturned bent arms 9, which take between laminae ofthe backing 3. At the'same time the pressure is designed to permit theleaves 1 to be withdrawn from beneath the clamping jaw 4 as theoperation of the book may demand. When one or more leaves are thuswithdrawn the clamping jaw 4 nevertheless continues to press upon thesucceeding underlying leaves soas to retain them on the backing 3. i

The numeral 10 indicates a clamping jaw supported by pivoted arms 11,the jaw 10 being similarly pressed against the leaves .1 as explained inconnection with the jaw 4. The clamping jaw 10 may consist of a rodhaving straight transverse sections 11 in alignment with each other andan inwardly extending section 12, the latter sectioncontactingwith theleaves of the pad within the edge of the latter, the straight sections11 substantially registering with the edge of the "pad at the folds.

The numeral 13 indicates a support which, in the present instance, is astiff metallic plate or leaf hinged to the backing 3 at one end asindicated at 14. At its other end the ,support 13 extends beyond thebacking 3 and has an elevated portion 15, which in the present instanceis formed by bending the metallic leaf 13 so that the part 15 is in aplane elevated with respect to the main portion of the leaf 13, asillustrated. The supvated portion 15 of the support 13. In theembodiment illustrated the numerals 17 and 18 indicate clamping jawshinged and spring-pressed together as illustrated at 19,

to grip the tissue pad. The underlying jaw I v18 may be rivetedin' placeon the top of the paper, as for instance manila paper, bound to thebottom of the tissue pad and therewith clamped to the elevated portion15 by the jaws 17 and 18. This tongue 20 extends so as to underlie thebacking 3 and be pressed by the latter against the support 13 when thebook is in position for inscription, thus providing a protecting andreenforcing support for the 'partsof the leaves 16 extending betweentheir binding and the pad. The leaves 16 proceed from the clamped end ofthe tissue pad toward the opaque pad and are adapted to overlie andunderlie the backing 3 and be interleaved with the leaves 1.

The numeral 21 indicates a cover which may be composed of the samematerial as the support 3, This cover is hinged to the elevated portion15 through the instrumentality of a flexible, as leather, connection 22.

In operation, the cover 21 is thrown back, as in Fig. 2, and theuppermost leaf 1 grasped and withdrawn from beneath the clamping jaws 4and 10. By turning this leaf on its fold line 2 the transfer sheet 7will dispose itself on the next underlying leaf 1. Thereupon anunderlying leaf, indieated at 23, of the tissue pad is drawn forward tooverlie the transfer leaf 7, whereupon the uppermost leaf 1 is turnedback onto the superposed tissue leaf 23. Inscription made upon theuppermost, or original, opaque leaf 1 will be duplicated upon the nextunderlying leaf 1 and also upon the under face of the intermediatetissue leaf 23. The backing 3 is then lifted, turning on' its hinge 1 1,and this operation will cause the inscribed tissue leaf to seat itselfon the support 13. Thereupon the backing 3 with the pad of opaque leavesthereon is returned to its original position, and the underlyinginscribed leaf I pulled from beneath the clamp jaw 1- and torn from thenext succeeding leaf. This will leave two connected inscribed opaqueleaves 1 in the hand of '-the operator, and they may be torn apart anddisposed of as desired. Preliminary to a succeeding manifoldinginscription the two upper leaves 1 are drawn from beneath the clamp 10.

' The disposition of the clamped end of the tissue pad on the elevatedportion 15 of the support 13, and preferably substantially in alignmentwith the center of the thickness of the pad of leaves 1, enables ashorter length of tissue leaf to be used than if the clamped part of thetissue pad were in the same plane as the main support 13 or below theplane of the pad of leaves 1. Furthermore the inclined part 25 of thesupport 13 which leads to the elevated portion 15 serves as a rest forthe adjacent portions of the inscribed tissue leaves and tends toprevent them from being punctured, as by the fingers .of the operatorinadvertently coining strongly in contact therewith.

Thus by the above described construction are accomplished among othersthe objects hereinbefore referred to.

As many changes may be made in the above construction and manyapparently widely different embodiments of this invention may be madewithout departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all mattercontained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawingsshall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense. I

It is also to be understood that the language used in thefollowingclaims is intended to cover all of the generic and'specificfeatures of the invention herein described, and all statements of thescope of the inven tion which, as a. matter of language, might be saidto 1" all therebetwcen.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent is: y

A manifolding book including, in combi-. nation, a support for a zigzagpad, a pair of clamping arms mounted upon said support and adapted tobear resiliently upon the opposite ends of said pad, a backing to whichone end of said supportis hinged, the

said clamping arm on the end of the support opposite to the hingebetween said support and said backing being adapted to hold a carbonsheet, an extension upon said backing adapted to extend out from undersaid support on the end thereof opposite the hinge, and having an offsetportion above the level of the support, an auxiliary pad having astubportion overlying said extension, a pair of plates hinged together toform jaws beyond'the end of said auxiliary pad and a spring for holdingsaid plates together to clamp said auxiliary pad inplace therebetweeniIn testimony whereof I afii'x my signature.

' EDWARD KIRBY BOTTLE.

